The Genocidal Lombard League of Cities Apparatus 1 British Empire

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2 Bank of England 3 H.G. Wells (4) (8) Julian Huxley (3) (9) (10) (13) (14) Charles Montagu—1st Earl of Halifax Sir Montagu Norman Bertrand Russell (4) (8) (18) Sir Martin Wakefield Jencomb (s)

5 British Corporate SS 6 Royal Dutch Shell Oil

Barclays Bank (2) Banking Corporation (23) Sir Henri Deterding (4) RTZ Corp (1) N.M. Rothschild Sir John Loudon (19) Anglo-American Corp Royal Bank of Scotland (1) Sir Peter Fenwicke Holmes (20) Imperial Corp JP Morgan Chase Lord Ronald Oxburgh (23) (24) (28) Hong Kong Shanghai BP (British Petroleum) (9)

7 The Club of Rome 8 British Fabian Society 9 Flora and Fauna Preservation Society Aurelio Peccei Frederico Mayor Zaragoza (14) Thomas Huxley (4) Tony Blair (23) (27) Sir Peter Scott (10) (11) (13) (19) Alexander King (19) Anita Thorhuag Sidney & Beatrice Webb Gordon Brown London Major Lndsay Bury Eduard Pestel (26) Queen Beatrix of the Coefficients Club David Milliband School of Field Marshall Sir John Chapple (13) Dennis Meadows (26) Netherlands (1) H.G. Wells (3) (4) Edward Milliband Economics Melissa Shackleton Dann (13) Donella Meadows Chief Emeka Anyaoku (12) Bertrand Russell (3) (4) (18) Nicolette Gavron HRH Princess Baron Browne of Madingley (BP) (5) Prince Philip of Great Britain (13) Baron Peter Archer (22) (26) (27) Anne of Great Princess Laurentien of the (1) (4) (13) Mikhail Gobachov Britain (1) Netherlands (1) Koichiro Matsuura (14) King Juan Carlos of Spain Julian Huxley (3) (4) (10) (13) (14)

12 British Commonwealth

Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain (1) Sir Shridath “Sonny’’ Ramphal (10) Kamalesh Sharma Arnold Cantwell Smith Chief Emeka Anyaoku (7) (13)

17 14 UNESCO 15 UNEP 16 Rockefeller Mega Funding World Resources Institute/IIED Sir Julian Huxley (3) (4) (9) (10) Maurice Strong (10) Rockefeller Foundation (4) (British Foreign Office) (13) (13) (17) (19) Rockefeller Brothers Fund (28) (31) Koichiro Matsuura (7) Achim Steiner (10) Rockefeller Philanthropy Adviers Gus Speth Frederico Mayor Zaragosa (7) James Leape (13) David Rockefeller Theodore Roosevelt IV Stephen Rockefeller Al Gore Michael Northrop (23) (24) (28) (31) James Harmon Maurice Strong (10) (13) (15) (19)

22 London Mayor’s Office Mayor Ken Livingstone (26) (27) Deputy Mayor Nicolette Gavron (8) (26) (27)

David Craine London Climate London Plan Control Agency Alan Jones (23)

25 UCLG 26 ICLEI-Sustainable Development International Union of Local Konrad Otto-Zimmermann (7) Bernard Delanoë (25) (27) Authorities Dennis Meadows (7) Ken Livingstone (22) (27) Dirk Hudig Nicky Gavron (8) (22) (27) Michael Bloomberg (23) (27) (31) Count Richard Coudenhove- Sir John Chatfield Kalergi 28 Paris Mayor Bernard Delanoë Earth Institute (26) (27) Jeffrey Sachs Kenneth Arrow Michael Northrop (16) (23) (24) (31) 31 George Soros New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (23) (26) (27) Rockfeller Brothers Fund (16) (31) Lord Ronald Oxburgh (6) (23) (24) Office of Long-Term Planning & Sustainability Michael Northrop (16) (23) (24) (28) Rohit Aggarwala (27) Marcia Bystron Rockefeller Brothers Fund (16) (28) PlaNYC 2030 Earth Institute (28) Felix Rohatyn (29)

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4 Nazism-Eugenics Movement Each entity on Thomas Huxley (8) Lazard Freres (29) the chart has a British Eugenics League Hjalmar Schacht number, keyed Julian Huxley (3) (9) (10) (13) (14) Eugenics Record Office, New York to the dossier H.G. Wells (3) (8) Rockefeller Foundation (16) on the following Bertrand Russell (3) (8) (18) Averell Harriman pages. The Prince Philip of Great Britain (1) (7) (13) Prescott Bush Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (1) (13) Sir Henri Deterding (6) names of leading Montagu Norman (2) Alfred Rosenberg members of the entity are placed underneath, along 10 11 International Union for Nature Conservancy with numbers that Conservation of Nature cross-reference Julian Huxley (3) (4) (9) (13) (14) (IUCN) Sir Peter Scott (9) (11) (13) (19) other groups Max Nicholson (11) (13) Julian Huxley (3) (4) (9) (13) (14) the individual is Achim Steiner (15) Sir Peter Scott (9) (11) (13) (19) affiliated with. Sir Shridath “Sonny” Ramphal (12) Max Nicholson (11) (13) Achim Steiner (15) Sir Shridath “Sonny” Ramphal (12) Maurice Strong (13) (15) (17) (19)

13 World Wildlife Fund/Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF)

Julian Huxley (3) (4) (10) (13) Maurice Strong (10) (15) (17) Max Nicholson (10) (11) (19) Sir Peter Scott (9) (10) (11) (19) Steve Howard (23) Prince Philip of Great Britain (1) (4) (7) James Leape (15) Prince Bernhard of Netherlands (1) (4) Sir John Chapple (9) Chief Emeka Anyaoku of Nigeria (7) (12) Melissa Schackleton Dann (9)

18 Greenpeace 19 1001 Club 20 WWF 21 WWF United Kingdom United States Bertrand Russell (3) (4) (8) Maurice Strong (10) (13) Prince Johannes Thurn Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (15) (17) und Taxis David Nussbaum Bruce Babbitt David McTaggart (19) Alexander King (7) Giovanni Agnelli Robert Napier (23) Carter Roberts (11) Simon Reddy (25) Sir Peter Scott (9) (10) (11) David McTaggart (18) Sir Peter Fenwicke Holmes Bill Hare (24) (13) Robert Vesco (6) John Loudon (6) Tibor Rosenbaum Louis Mortimer Bloomfield

23 The Climate Group 24 Climate Change Capital

Steve Howard (13) Rupert Murdoch (30) Mark Woodall Michael Northrop (16) (23) Lord Ronald Oxburgh (6) (24) (28) Bloomberg LLP (26) (27) (31) Lord Ronald Oxburgh (6) (28) (31) Michael Northrop (16) (24) (28) Tony Blair (8) (27) (23) (28) James Cameron (23) (31) Goldman Sachs Bill Hare (18) James Cameron (24) Robert Napier (20) Hong Kong Shanghai Bank (5) Alan Jones (22) 27 C40

Simon Reddy (18) Bernard Delanoë (25) (26) Nicky Gavron (8) (22) (26) Tony Blair (8) (23) Ken Livingstone (22) (26) Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit Michael Bloomberg (23) (27) (31) Rohit Aggarwala (31)

29 30 Felix Rohatyn (31) Partnership for New York City

Lazard Frères (4) (30) Office of Long-Term Planning & Earth Institute (28) Big MAC (30) Sustainability Michael Northrop (16) (23) (24) Lehman Brothers Rohit Aggarwala (27) (28) Stephen Berger (30) Rockefeller Brothers Fund (16) Marcia Bystron (28) PlaNYC 2030

June 6, 2008 EIR National 51 The Genocidal Lombard League of Cities Apparatus

The following numbered entries are keyed to the chart on Charles Montagu, First Earl of Halifax (1661-1715), was pages 50-51 above, to provide an in-depth description of a fierce opponent of the Gottfried Leibniz-supported Queen topics to which the chart refers. A condensed version of this Anne, supervised the Bank’s creation, as a vehicle to facilitate dossier appeared in EIR, May 23, 2008, pp. 50-55. collecting taxes and to loot the people of England, and as an instrument that served the British Empire’s drive for world 1. The British Empire supremacy. The British Empire is the Anglo-Dutch Liberal financier Sir Montagu Norman (1871-1950), governor of the Bank cartel, which rules based on the oligarchical model of the of England (1920-44), played a dominant role in orchestrating reign of masters over slaves or serfs. Lyndon LaRouche has the Nazi rise to power. He deployed his asset, Reichsbank described it as “based on Venice, a syndicate of financiers, in- chairman Hjalmar Schacht (1877-1970), who coordinated the dividual financiers, who, in a group, form a kind of a locust funds that were used for Hitler’s takeover; Schacht became horde.” This cartel put Benito Mussolini into power in Italy, Hitler’s Economics Minister. Over the years, Norman and and Adolf Hitler into power in Germany. LaRouche told an Schacht met, sometimes in secret locations, and sometimes at international webcast audience on May 7 that this financier meetings of the board of directors of the Bank of International cartel today seeks to “grab the United States, then they will Settlements (BIS) in Basel, Switzerland. Norman was godfa- grab all of Europe under the Lisbon Treaty. If they control the ther to one of Schacht’s children. United States and parts of Europe under the Lisbon Treaty, Norman helped create the BIS in 1930. He and Nazi bank- then you will have an actual fighting war emerging on this ers made sure that the BIS denied Germany funds when it des- planet, against the continent of Africa and much of the conti- perately needed them during the critical years of 1931-32, and nent of Asia, and other places. You will have dictatorship; you then extended such credits once Hitler took power in 1933. will have mass starvation. The elimination of whole sections Schacht laid the groundwork for Hitler’s Final Solution poli- of the population of parts of the world through starvation.” cy, coordinating this policy with Norman. As these wealthy families react to the collapse of their own As for its promotion of environmentalism, Sir John financial system, since July 25, 2007, they have accelerated the “Chips” Keswick, who was a member of the Bank of Eng- drive to grab control of the world’s energy supplies, base and land’s Court (governing body), as well as former chairman of strategic metal reserves, and food supplies, giving them top- Hambros Bank, is a supporter of the World Wildlife Fund/ down control over production and distribution of the essential World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), and member of its fund- goods upon which humanity’s survival depends. The desired raising arm, the 1001 Club. outcome of this Malthusian policy is to reduce the world’s population from its current 6.7 billion to less than 1 billion. 3. H.G. Wells, Julian Huxley, Bertrand Russell At the top of this Anglo-Dutch liberal financier cartel is During the 20th Century, three individuals—H.G. Wells Prince Philip of Great Britain, his demented offspring Prince (1866-1946), Julian Huxley (1887-1975), and Bertrand Rus- Charles, and the Dutch House of Orange-Nassau. But it also sell (1872-1970)—were foremost British proponents of the includes powerful nobility, and wealthy families located in One World government doctrine laid out in Wells’ The Open France, Germany, Italy, Scandinavia, Spain, Eastern Europe, Conspiracy. The International Union for Conservation of Na- scores of smaller principalities, and the United States (nota- ture (IUCN), the WWF, Greenpeace, and other environmen- bly, New York City). talist organizations today are the grandchildren of Wells, Hux- It is this power center, over the span of 100 years, espe- ley, and Russell. cially the last 30, through which the Lombard League of Cit- Brief mention has to be made of Thomas Huxley (1825- ies apparatus, detailed below, was created. 95), who is the real intellectual author of Charles Darwin’s doctrine of “natural selection,” as transcribed in Darwin’s 2. Bank of England 1859 On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, The Bank of England is the prototypical central bank, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for founded in 1694, as an instrument that served the British Em- tLife. I was T.H. Huxley, who called himself “Darwin’s Bull- pire’s drive for world supremacy. dog,” who not only propagated this oligarchical view of the

52 National EIR June 6, 2008 “preservation of favored species,” but did the organizing on in the Fall of that year.) Also in 1936, the Voluntary Euthana- its behalf. Darwin was merely Huxley’s instrument. T.H. sia Legalization Society (VELS), Britain’s leading euthanasia Huxley was the grandfather of Julian Huxley, the teacher of organization, arranged for a bill to be introduced into the Wells, and an influence on Wells throughout his life. House of Lords, that would make it legal to kill terminally ill Herbert George Wells: In 1928, Wells published his Open adults. Debate went on for weeks. This murderous movement Conspiracy, a call for fascist-imperial world dictatorship. in Britain was coming out in its own name, at a time when Hit- LaRouche, in his article “H.W. Wells’ ‘Mein Kampf’: Sir Ce- ler was implementing the same policy. dric Cesspool’s Empire” (EIR, May 9, 2008), summarized it Huxley was for years the vice president, and then presi- this way: dent of the British Eugenics Society, and a member of the ex- “There are three basic rules which, in fact, permeate H.G. ecutive committee of the Euthanasia Society. Wells’ intention in his The Open Conspiracy. 1.) No tolerance After World War II, it became a problem to openly advo- for expressions of sovereign forms of nation-state culture. 2.) cate eugenics. In 1956, the British Eugenics Society decided No promotion of knowledge of ‘fire’: i.e., the discovery of an in a resolution that, “the society should pursue eugenics by applicable universal physical principle of general use in econ- less obvious means.” This meant “planned parenthood,” and omies, such as nuclear-fission power. 3.) No efficient access the environmental movement. to continued knowledge of national cultures. This is precisely In 1946, Huxley founded and became the first director of the same type of policy expressed by the Olympian Zeus of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Or- Prometheus Bound.” ganization (UNESCO), which pushed for population reduc- Wells, in his 1901 Anticipations of the Reaction to Me- tion, and what Huxley called “a single culture for the world.” chanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and In 1948, along with Sir Peter Scott, Huxley founded the IUCN Thought, Wells gave a chilling presentation of his axioms: to push through environmentalism as the active vehicle for “The Men of the New Republic will not be squeamish ei- eugenics and a halt to industrial and agricultural development. ther in facing or inflicting death. . . . They will have ideals that In 1961, along with Prince Philip and Prince Bernhard of The will make killing worthwhile. . . . They will hold that a certain Netherlands, Huxley founded the World Wildlife Fund. portion of the population exists only on sufferance out of pity Bertrand Russell: In his 1952 book, The Impact of Science and patience, and on the understanding that they do not propa- on Society, Russell wrote: gate: and I do not foresee any reason to suppose that they will “At present the population of the world is increasing at hesitate to kill when that sufferance is abused.” about 58,000 per diem. War, so far, has had no very great ef- Wells was an active member of the British Eugenics Soci- fect on this increase, which continued throughout each of the ety and the Euthanasia Society, and a member of the Fabian world wars. . . . War has hitherto been disappointing in this re- Society. spect . . . but perhaps bacteriological war may prove effective. Julian Huxley, an exponent of world empire, was particu- If a Black Death could spread throughout the world once in larly keen on identifying those “unfit to live” and killing every generation, survivors could procreate freely without them. making the world too full. The state of affairs might be un- In February 1936, Huxley presented this theme in a paper pleasant, but what of it?” entitled, “Eugenics and Society,” which was the Galton Lec- In 1960, Russell founded and became president of the ture to the British Eugenics Society: Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). In 1972, the “Eugenics, Don Inge writes in one of his essays, is capa- CND created, through the Don’t Make a Wave Committee, ble of becoming the most sacred ideal of the human race, as a the group known as Greenpeace. race; one of the supreme religious duties. In this I entirely agree with him. Once the full implications of evolutionary bi- 4. Nazism-Eugenics Movement ology are grasped, eugenics will inevitably become part of the In 1903-07, the Eugenics Education Society was founded, religion of the future, or of whatever complex of sentiments which became the British Eugenics Society in 1926. Julian may in the future take the place of organized religion. It is not Huxley was vice-president (1937-44) and president (1959- merely a sane outlet for altruism [!], but is of all outlets for al- 62). Other leading members included Lords Alfred Balfour truism that which is most comprehensive and of longest and John Maynard Keynes; Sir Francis Galton; and H.G. range.” Wells. Consider the period in which Huxley was writing. In Nazi In the United States, the leading institution was the Eu- Germany, the international eugenics movement, of which genics Record Office in Cold Spring, N.Y., which was found- Huxley was a leading member, had already put into effect race ed and directed by the Harriman family, and funded by the laws and eugenics laws. On Jan. 20, 1936, Britain’s Prince Rockefeller family. Edward Albert became Edward VIII, succeeding his father The international Fascist-Synarchist movement was run George V, who had just died. King Edward VIII was an open by the Anglo-Dutch financier cartel, and coordinated by such Hitler supporter. (Because of this, his abdication was arranged as Sir Monatgu Norman, governor of the Bank of England;

June 6, 2008 EIR National 53 the heads of British and New York commercial and invest- Limits to Growth, which used graphs and computer modelling ment banks; the French-British investment bank Lazard to give a false appearance of scientific authority. The comput- Frères; Royal Dutch Shell; the Rockefellers’ Standard Oil er models “showed” that population would grow exponen- combine; and others. tially, but that resources were finite, and that no scientific and technological discoveries would occur that would overcome 5. The British Corporate SS resource depletion. The report concludes that, “Population fi- The British Corporate SS is the international network of nally decreases when the death rate is driven upward by lack banks and raw materials companies through which the British of food and health services.” Empire extends its world control. It includes the former Hong This is no different than Thomas Malthus’s 1798 “Essay Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp., Royal Bank of Scotland, on Population,” which concluded that the poor should be in- Standard Chartered, Barclays, Royal Dutch Shell, BP, the duced to live near disease-ridden, stagnant pools of water, and RTZ and Anglo American/De Beers mining giants, Imperial other such measures, to increase the death rate. Chemicals, the Bunge, Cargill, and ADM grain cartel, Unile- In 1992, in a 20-year retrospective, The Global Revolu- ver, and others. tion: A Report by the Club of Rome Council, King wrote: “In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up 6. Royal Dutch Shell Oil (RDS) with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, wa- Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company, the world’s third-largest ter shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. . . . All corporation, represents the consolidation of the interests of these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only the British and Dutch royal households; it arose from the through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be merger of the Shell Transport and Trading Company of Lon- overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself. . . . don (founded in 1897) and the Royal Dutch Petroleum Com- “Sacrilegious though this may sound, democracy is no pany of The Hague (founded in 1890 under a royal charter). longer well suited for the tasks ahead.” Henri Deterding, who founded the Dutch branch of the The penetration of the Club of Rome into the Lombard company and was RDS chairman from 1900 to 1936, was an League of Cities apparatus is deep: Conrad Otto-Zimmer- early supporter of the Nazi regime. To benefit the Nazi war mann, secretary-general of ICLEI (International Council for machine, in 1936, under Deterding’s direction, RDS arranged Local Environment Initiatives/Local Governments for Sus- to provide Germany with one year’s supply of petroleum, on tainability), is an avowed disciple of Club of Rome founder credit. Under Hermann Göring’s four-year plan, which started Eduard Pestel, and told a reporter on April 15, that what the in 1936, Germany was feverishly gearing up its production to Club of Rome’s Limits to Growth concluded is “absolutely produce the munitions for the conquest of Europe. right.” Other Club of Rome members include Chief Emeka Royal Dutch Shell became a heavy promoter of the envi- Anyaoku, head of the WWF International; and Koichiro Mat- ronmentalist movement, especially since MI6 intelligence- suura, director-general of UNESCO. linked Lord Victor Rothschild was director of Shell World- wide Research, from 1963 through 1970. John H. Loudon, the 8. British Fabian Society son of one of the co-founders of RDS, and its chairman from The Fabian Society was founded in January 1884, by the 1951 to 1965, was the president of the World Wildlife Fund Anglo-Dutch Liberal oligarchy, using such instruments as internationally from 1971 to 1976. Sir Peter Fenwicke Hol- Sidney and Beatrice Webb, George Bernard Shaw, Edward mes, who was chairman of RDS from 1985 through 1993, was Pease, and Havelock Ellis. Among past and present members a leading figure in the WWF United Kingdom branch. Lord are: Lord Alfred Balfour; theosophist leader Annie Besant; Ronald Oxburgh, who chaired RDS from 2004 to 2005, is a H.G. Wells; Earl Bertrand Russell; Ramsay MacDonald, who board member of the green fascist Climate Group and of the became Prime Minister; Clement Atlee; Harold Wilson who Climate Change Capital investment bank, and is a leading became Prime Minister; more recently, Tony Blair who be- force in the global warming hoax, and in organizing for a new came Prime Minister; current Prime Minister Gordon Brown; Lombard League of Cities. current Foreign Secretary David Miliband; Edward Miliband, RDS was a founder of the World Business Council for Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister of the Sustainable Development. British Cabinet; and so on. The founding purpose of the Fabian Society was shaped 7. Club of Rome by President Abraham Lincoln’s defeat of the British-spon- The Club of Rome was founded in 1968, by Alexander sored Confederate insurrection in 1865, which led to Ameri- King (director for scientific affairs and then director-general ca’s becoming the world’s most powerful agro-industrial of the OECD, 1960-74) and Aurelio Peccei, as a Malthusian economy. Britain no longer simply dominated the world, and organization, with an agenda for genocide. its imperial rule required financial domination, and some- In 1972, the Club of Rome published its manifesto, The times, a subtler, “leftist” from of rule, which seemed less con-

54 National EIR June 6, 2008 frontational. The Fabian Society was plenty imperialist, as cerned with “species preservation,” chaired for almost two spelled out in its 1900 election pamphlet, “Fabianism and the decades by Peter Scott. Empire,” drafted by the Webbs and G.B. Shaw. The Fabians were invaluable in steering the post-World War II “indepen- 10. International Union for the Conservation of dence” movement in Africa, by which the oligarchy granted Nature (IUCN) African states nominal independence only, while keeping The IUCN, based in Gland, Switzerland, was formed in them in thrall, through financial, raw materials, and cultural 1948 by Sir Julian Huxley and Sir Peter Scott; its constitution domination. was written by the British Foreign Office. Bringing together In 1895, the Fabians created the London School of Eco- 140 nations, 200-plus government and international agencies, nomics; in 1900-02, they played a role in creating and drafting and 766-plus non-governmental organizations, the IUCN is the constitution of the British Labour Party, in which they re- the world’s oldest and largest global environmental organiza- main influential. tion. It is nominally tied to the United Nations, but is outside Today, the Fabians continue to carry out the policy of its oversight. Tony Blair, the man who started the 2003 Iraq War. Blair es- The IUCN presents annually a “Red List” of “endan- tablished the Foreign Policy Centre (FPC) in 1998, to pro- gered” or “at risk species,” which has been used to cordon off mote climate change propaganda and Third World destabili- immense tracts of land, bringing development projects to a zations, under the coloration of “anti-imperialism.” Stephen screeching halt. The IUCN has provided the ICLEI organiza- Twigg, former general secretary of the Fabian Society, is di- tion with a seven-point “biodiversity program,” entitled rector of the FPC. Fabian Society member Nicky Gavron has “Countdown 2010.” Point 4 of this program states that, been one of four or five persons giving overall shape to the “Roads, factories and housing destroy habitats for animals ICLEI’s and C40’s plan to create a Lombard League of Cit- and plants. If urban and rural development continues to ignore ies. nature, our surroundings will be dominated by concrete and pollution.” 9. The Fauna and Flora Preservation Society The IUCN originally formed the WWF to fund the IUCN. Founded in 1903 as the Society for the Preservation of Its staff plans the conservation strategies and administers the the Wild Fauna of the Empire, this is the second-oldest Brit- national park systems of many former colonies today. The ish conservation organization after the Royal Society for the IUCN’s president from 1990 through 1993, Sir Shridath “Son- Protection of Birds (1889), and closely connected to the Zoo- ny” Ramphal, was the former secretary general of the British logical Society of London. It has a panel of 108 “honorary Commonwealth (1975-90). Former director-general of the overseas consultants” in 70 countries, and maintains liaison IUCN Achim Steiner (2001-06) has been since June 2006, the with most other key conservation bodies. It is the mother or- executive-director of the United Nations Environment Pro- ganization, with the Eugenics Society, of the IUCN and the gram (UNEP). The IUCN’s present director-general, Julia WWF. Marton-Lefevre, not only served as program specialist for the “The Fauna” was founded as an arm of British imperial UNESCO-UNEP Environmental Education Program, but is policy under the guise of “conservation.” Its founding vice also on the board of the World Resources Institute. presidents, Lords Milner, Grey, Cromer, Curzon, and Minto, 11. The Nature Conservancy were all imperial proconsuls, chiefly in India and Africa. As The Nature Conservancy was established under a royal Sir Peter Scott, FFPS chairman from 1966, until his death in charter in 1949, and is one of four official research bodies un- 1989, noted in his official history of the Fauna: “Since the der the British Privy Council, which reports to the Queen. Empire at that time covered about a quarter of the surface of Known as the “world’s first statutory conservation body,” it the globe, it was a fair start on internationalising the infant became one of the most powerful post-war covert operations wildlife conservation movement.” of the Crown. From his influential post as permanent secre- The chief aim of the FFPS, since renamed the Fauna and tary to the Lord President of the Council (the deputy prime Flora International (FFI), was to expand the national park sys- minister), Julian Huxley-intimate Edward Max Nicholson tem worldwide, by which immense tracts of land could be wrote the legislation creating the Conservancy, then left his taken out of development, and through which, weapons could government post to head it as director-general (1952-66). be smuggled and terror groups trained. Its secretary, Colonel Nicholson developed most of the major strategies and tac- Stevenson-Hamilton, established the Kruger National Park in tics of the world environmentalist movement for the next de- South Africa. cades. He launched the campaign against DDT, later popular- FFI personnel have been dominant in the IUCN and the ized by Rachel Carson in The Silent Spring; drafted the WWF since their founding, frequently chairing the IUCN’s constitution for the IUCN; set up and chaired the committee two key committees, the Commission on National Parks and that established the WWF in 1961; and chose Sir Peter Scott Protected Areas; and the Survival Service Commission, con- as the WWF’s first chairman, in 1961; Scott held the post for

June 6, 2008 EIR National 55 over two decades. The subtitle to Nicholson’s 1970 history of general (1975-90); later, director-general of the IUCN. the post-war environmental movement is A Guide for the New Chief Emeka Anyaoku, GCVO (Commander, Royal Vic- Masters of the Earth. torian Order), secretary-general (1990-2000); current CEO of WWF International. 12. British Commonwealth The British Commonwealth of Nations was formed in 13. World Wildlife Fund (WWF) 1955, as an active form of the British Empire, especially in the The World Wildlife Fund (renamed the World Wide Fund Third World. It is comprised of Great Britain and 52 other na- for Nature in several countries) was created in 1961 by a fu- tions, mostly former colonies of the British Empire. Queen sion of the cadre of the world’s leading one-worldist ideo- Elizabeth II is the Head of the Commonwealth, recognized by logues and environmentalist torch-bearers—Julian Huxley, each state as such. She is also the sovereign Head of State of Sir Peter Scott, and Edward Max Nicholson, all founders of 16 members of the Commonwealth, among them Canada, the IUCN and/or the Nature Conservancy—and the pro-Nazi Australia, and the Bahamas. Eighteen Commonwealth coun- echelon of the Anglo-Dutch oligarchy, Prince Philip of Great tries are in Africa, and 12 are in Asia. Britain and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. Its original When Britain was compelled to “decolonize” during the purpose was to be a fundraiser for the IUCN. (The WWF second half of the 20th Century, it left behind a number of in- shared the same building in Gland, Switzerland as the stitutions to dominate the economies and culture of these na- IUCN.) tions. These included several raw materials extraction compa- The WWF’s purpose has been to drastically reduce the nies—RTZ, Anglo American-DeBeers, HBP-Billiton, Royal world’s population, especially non-whites; to halt develop- Dutch Shell, BP, Unilever—which plunder diamonds, gold, ment projects; and tomake sure that the world’s raw materials copper, zinc, other base metals, strategic metals, energy sup- are under the control of a tiny elite. plies, etc. in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Britain also left During the 1930s, Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld became intact British Imperial Banks, such as Standard Chartered, a member of the Nazi SS Corps, and in 1935, he was assigned Barclays, and the Royal Bank of Scotland. Also left behind a key position inside the IG Farben chemical cartel in Paris, were the means of continued control: British laws and courts, which company was at the center of the Nazi war machine, as a British-established commercial system, a British-construct- well as its concentration camp operations. Because of his ed civil service system, and British-controlled universities, Nazi links, his marriage to Queen Juliana of the House of Or- where each year, millions of Third World nationals—often ange-Nassau created a scandal in the Netherlands. Bernhard members of those nation’s elites—attend and are brainwashed took the reins as the WWF’s first president, holding that post with the ideology of British Liberalism. until 1976. In 1981, Britain’s Prince Philip, the Duke of Ed- Britain can often control these nations economically and inburgh, took over as president, which post he retained until culturally, and set off long-festering problems, which were 1996. planted as the British “withdrew” from these countries. This Prince Philip’s enemy is the Promethean conception of is evident today in Pakistan, Kenya, Sierra Leone, and many man. In an address to the Joint Meeting of the All-Party Group other countries, where British Foreign Office-sponsored an- on Population and Development and the All-Party Conserva- thropologists have profiled, over decades, every tribe, every tion Committee in London, March 11, 1987, Philip ranted: clan, in some cases every household, for ethnic background, “The simple fact is that the human population of the world household possessions, and so forth, in order to trigger tribal is consuming natural renewable resources faster than it can and ethnic tensions at whim. regenerate, and the process of exploitation is causing even The British Commonwealth is joined by other British pos- further damage. If this is already happening with a population sessions such as Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cay- of 4 billion, I ask you to imagine what things will be like when man Islands, and the Isle of Man. All told, the British Empire the population reaches 6 and then 10 billion. . . . All this has holds direct sway over 25% of the world’s land mass, and been made possible by the industrial revolution and the scien- 25% of its population. tific explosion and it is spread around the world by the new The Commonwealth is a powerful institution that can economic religion of development.” push policies in the strategic interest of the Empire. The sec- “In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return retaries-general run the operational affairs of the Common- as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve wealth: overpopulation,” Philip asserted on another occasion, as re- Commonwealth secretaries-general: ported by the Deutsche Press Agentur (DPA), August 1988. In Arnold Cantwell Smith, OC (Order of Companions of Or- his 1986 foreword, titled, “People as Animals,” to Fleur der), Canadian diplomat, secretary-general (1965-75) Cowles’ book If I Were an Animal, Philip wrote: “I just won- Sir Shridath “Sonny” Ramphal, GCMG (Most Distin- der what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal guished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George), secretary- whose species had been so reduced in numbers that it was in

56 National EIR June 6, 2008 danger of extinction. What would be its feelings toward the 15. United Nations Environment Program human species whose population explosion had denied it (UNEP) somewhere to exist. . . ? I must confess that I am tempted to UNEP was formed at the 1972 UN Conference on the En- ask for reincarnation as a particularly deadly virus” (London: vironment, which Malthusian financier Maurice Strong Robin Clark Ltd., 1986). chaired; Strong became UNEP’s first secretary-general (1973- The WWF offers on its website an “Adopt a Vampire Bat” 75). program. The vampire bat, once it has sunk its teeth into its UNEP runs the environmental juggernaut for the UN or- prey, secretes an anti-coagulant into its blood, thereby ensur- ganization. In 1988, UNEP established (jointly with the World ing that the victim will keep on bleeding. All the better to en- Meteorological Organization), the Intergovernmental Panel sure that all the blood is sucked out—just as the bankers’ on Climate Change (IPCC), which is the principal propagan- WWF would have it. da organ for “global warming.” UNEP continues to have ma- The WWF International’s current president is Chief Eme- jor input into the IPCC. ka Anyaoku of Nigeria, who served from 1990 to 2000 as sec- It was the UNEP director for North America, Jeb Brug- retary-general of the British Commonwealth, and today is a man, who, at UN headquarters, helped to create in 1990, the member of the Club of Rome. International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI), which is the spearhead organization today for impo- 14. United Nations Educational, Scientific, and sition of the Lombard League of the Cities. ICLEI has snared Cultural Organization (UNESCO) mayors of 800 cities to work on its deindustrialization/depop- UNESCO was founded in 1946 by Julian Huxley, who ulation program for “climate change.” UNEP official Jeb was also its first director-general. In his founding document, Brugman became ICLEI’s first secretary-general. Huxley defined UNESCO’S three main aims as: popularizing In 1992, UNEP was one of the lead agencies for the UN the need for eugenics; protecting wildlife through the creation Conference on Environment and Development, also known of national parks, especially in Africa; and globalization. In as the “Rio Earth Summit,” held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. his 1946 UNESCO: Its Purpose and Philosophy Huxley Maurice Strong chaired the Rio Summit, which passed Local wrote: Agenda 21, promoting free trade and the tearing down of all “The task before UNESCO . . . is to help the emergence of protectionist measures for agriculture by each participating a world culture. . . . country, as a precondition for environmental policy. It also “Still another and quite different type of borderline sub- stressed taking down manufacturing and spreading depopula- ject is that of eugenics. It has been on the borderline between tion policies. HRH Prince Charles of Great Britain also helped the scientific and the unscientific, constantly in danger of be- shape the conference. coming a pseudoscience based on preconceived political ideas UNEP is an independent UN agency in name only. It is or on assumptions of racial or class superiority and inferiority. run by the IUCN, WWF, and other outside forces. For exam- It is, however, essential that eugenics should be brought en- ple, Maurice Strong was also chairman of the World Resourc- tirely within the borders of science, for as already indicated, in es Institute; Achim Steiner was director-general of the IUCN the not very remote future the problem of improving the aver- from 2000 to 2006, until he was assigned to become secre- age quality of human beings is likely to become urgent; and tary-general of UNEP in June 2006. this can only be accomplished by applying the findings of a truly scientific eugenics.” 16. Rockefeller Mega-Funding Based on that, students who were not proven to be “ge- The Rockefeller Foundation was created in 1913 by John netically disposed” should not be sent to university, he wrote. D. Rockefeller and John Rockefeller, Jr., out of the family’s With an annual budget of greater than three-quarters of a Standard Oil (today, Exxon-Mobil and Chevron) fortune. Its billion dollars, UNESCO funds a vast network of conserva- principal funding arm is the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and tion groups. Its work is closely intertwined with that of its sis- over the years the Rockefeller complex has been the biggest ter agency, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). dispenser of “philanthropic” funds—actually, for genocide— Together, they run the UNESCO-UNEP International Envi- in history. ronmental Education Program, and many other programs. In the 1920s and 1930s, the Rockefeller Foundation fund- The Club of Rome’s ideology dominates UNESCO, ed Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Hu- whose director-general, from 1987 to 1999, Frederico Mayor man Heredity and Eugenics, where Fritz Lenz and Eugen Zaragosa, had served as a minister in the last government of Fischer pioneered Nazi work on eugenics and “racial hy- Spain’s fascist dictator Francisco Franco, and is a member of giene.” With Rockefeller funding, sadistic experiments were the Club of Rome. Also a Club of Rome member is Koichiro carried out on human beings, while body parts for other ex- Matsuura, the director-general of UNESCO from 1999 to the periments were provided from the concentration camp at Aus- present. chwitz.

June 6, 2008 EIR National 57 The Standard Oil combine, along with the Rockefeller- leader David McTaggart, and renamed Greenpeace III, sailed, owned Chase Manhattan Bank, were prime collaborators of in an anti-nuclear protest, into the exclusion zone at Mururoa Hitler and his Vichy puppet government in France. In 1976, in French Polynesia, where the French were carrying out nu- the David Rockefeller-chaired and -run Trilateral Commis- clear testing. This voyage was sponsored and organized by the sion installed Jimmy Carter as U.S. President, under whose New Zealand branch of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarma- administration, deregulation and high interest rates took down ment. This set a precedent: Greenpeace would now carry out America’s productive capacity. increasingly violent actions by small to medium-sized craft, Together, the Rockefeller Foundation and Rockefeller into nuclear test zones, often confronting large French naval Brothers Fund have shoveled tens of millions of dollars into vessels. “Former” British SAS special forces units assisted environmentalist projects operated by the WWF, the Nature Greenpeace in this effort, the red dye showing that this was a Conservancy, the World Resources Institute, Greenpeace, British intelligence operation. ICLEI, and the green-sustainability PlaNYC 2030 of New Canadian David McTaggart, a major funder of the WWF, York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. was chairman of Greenpeace International from 1979 through 1991. Greenpeace coordinated provocative actions with the 17. World Resources Institute terrorist group Earth First! The World Resources Institute was founded in 1982 under In July 2004, Simon Reddy, then Greenpeace director of the guidance of WWF-USA president Russell E. Train, with Policy and Solutions, launched a war against nuclear power, grants from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the MacArthur stating in a Greenpeace press release, “A proper strategy to Foundation. James Gustave Speth, a co-founder of the anti- clean up our seas would mean the immediate phase-out of development Natural Resources Defense Council, was ap- polluting nuclear plants. . . . If we want to shake off our dirty pointed president. It was a leading promoter of both the ozone man of Europe tag we need to stop reprocessing nuclear waste and global warming hoaxes. [and] . . . close down existing nuclear power stations and aban- In 1989 it merged with the London-based International don all plans to build new ones.” Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), which is In March 2007, Reddy was appointed executive manager funded and directed by the U.K. Foreign and Commonwealth of C40. Office. The chairman of the IIED, Mary Robinson, is on the advi- 19. 1001 Club sory board of Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management, Membership in the 1001 Club, founded in 1971 by Prince the London-based investment bank set up to enrich Gore and Bernhard of The Netherlands, is restricted to 1,001 persons his cronies from trading in CO2 emission allowances, under at any given time, and is by invitation only. All members pay the global warming scam. Jonathan Lash, WRI’s president, is a $10,000 initiation fee, which goes toward a $10 million also on the advisory board of Generation Investment Manage- trust to bankroll World Wildlife Fund operations. The 1001 ment. Club donated an office building in Gland, Switzerland, Gore joined the WRI board in 2005, cementing himself which currently houses the international headquarters of the into the City of London global network. WWF and the IUCN. The first 1001 Club members were The “Resources” in WRI’s name refers to those natural handpicked by Prince Bernhard and Prince Philip. Member- resources which the London and allied imperial financiers ship includes representatives of the royal houses of Europe, claim for their perpetual control, as against the right of popu- top officials of British Crown corporations and banks, and lations in developing nations to use them for economic devel- others. The club also includes prominent figures in interna- opment. WRI’s staff help steer the WRI/IIED complex on be- tional organized crime. Below is a sample of current and half of imperial agencies: Royal Dutch Shell, BP, the Anglo past members. American/De Beers mining giant, and the food cartels Bunge HRH Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands. and Cargill. HRH Prince Philip of Great Britain. King Harald V of Norway, president of WWF-Norway. 18. Greenpeace Prince Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, president Greenpeace was founded as a Russellite, violent anti-nu- of WWF-Denmark. clear organization. In 1960, Bertrand Russell founded and be- King Juan Carlos of Spain. Founder and president of came president of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament honor of WWF-Spain. Member of the Club of Rome. (CND). This spawned the Don’t Make a Wave Committee, Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan. Given the title of His which assembled in 1969 to oppose a U.S. nuclear test under Highness by Queen Elizabeth II in 1957 when he was editor the Aleutian island of Amchitka, Alaska. The Don’t Make a of Paris Review, a publication co-founded by spook and bank- Wave Committee formed Greenpeace in May 1972. er John Train. In 1972, the 41-foot yacht Vega, owned by Greenpeace Prince Johannes von Thurn und Taxis (deceased). Self-

58 National EIR June 6, 2008 proclaimed “head of Venetian intelligence” and heir to one of 21.WWF-USA the most powerful “princely families” of the Holy Roman The WWF-USA is chaired by Bruce Babbit, former U.S. Empire, with extensive family land holdings in Bavaria, Por- secretary of the interior (1993-2001), and author of the 2005 tugal, Italy, and Brazil. His father, Max, founded Hitler’s book, Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in Allgemeine SS. America, which proposes that the Endangered Species Act be Conrad Black. Former chairman and CEO of the Hol- amended so as to identify, conserve, and protect landscapes, linger Corp., a British media conglomerate. Now in jail for watersheds, and ecosystems, whether or not an endangered fraud and obstruction of justice. species happens to be there. Alexander King (deceased). Co-founder in 1968 of the The current president and CEO of the WWF-USA, Carter Club of Rome, with Aurelio Peccei. S. Roberts, was previously an officer of the Nature Conser- Sir Peter Scott (deceased). Co-founder of IUCN, Nature vancy, U.S.A. Conservancy, and World Wide Fund for Nature. Maurice Strong. Founder of the UN Environment Pro- 22. London Mayor’s Office gram. Ran the UN-sponsored Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Former Mayor Ken Livingstone Brazil, in June 1992. Former Deputy Mayor Nicolette Gavron Tibor Rosenbaum (deceased). First logistics chief of the Ken Livingstone was mayor of London (Labour) from Israeli Mossad. His Geneva-based Banque du Crédit Interna- 2000 to 2008. He was defeated for re-election on May 2, 2008 tional was identified by Life magazine in 1967 as a money by Boris Johnson (Conservative), and left office on May 4. laundry for mob boss Meyer Lansky. Together with 1001 Livingstone is known as “Red Ken” for his militant socialist member Maj. Louis Mortimer Bloomfield (deceased), viewpoint, but this is something of a misnomer, as he is very Rosenbaum’s network financed Permindex, the corporate en- pliant for the financier cartel’s interests. tity which New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison Nicolette “Nicky” Gavron had served as Deputy Mayor of charged was a vehicle for the John F. Kennedy assassination. London for every year between 2000 and May 4, 2008, except French intelligence established that Permindex laundered for 2003. She is a leading force in the Fabian Society, champi- $200,000 through Rosenbaum’s BCI, to finance several abort- oning the most extreme current of decentralization. Her for- ed assassination attempts against President Charles de mer husband, media magnate Baron Robert Gavron, chaired Gaulle. the Guardian newspaper group 1997-2000, is a governor of Robert Vesco (deceased), fugitive, alleged “American the Fabian Society’s London School of Economics, and is at Connection” to Colombia’s Medellín drug cartel. Initially the center of the Tony Blair “cash for peerage” scandal. sponsored by the Swiss branch of the Rothschild family to In 1987, the Margaret Thatcher government abolished the take over the Lansky-affiliated Investors Overseas Service Greater London Council, the administrative body for Greater (IOS). London. This created the opening for a 13-year strategy for Edmond Safra (deceased), chairman of Safra Bank, one- the Fabian/Gavron/Livingstone gang to take control of Lon- time owner of American Express Bank, and target of U.S. and don. Using ministerial decrees, “quangos” (quasi-autono- Swiss government investigations as a drug-money launderer. mous non-governmental organizations), and the authority Baron Aubrey Buxton of Alsa. Life Peer. Vice president possessed by local boroughs, this gang established or took of WWF-UK under Prince Philip. The Buxton family has run over a layered series of semi-governmental bodies. In the Barclays bank. 1990s, Gavron became the first Labour Party leader to head the London Planning Advisory Committee, which could for- 20. WWF-UK mulate, and implement to an important extent, policies for WWF-UK is the United Kingdom operating branch of the London. It set up “greenbelts” throughout the city, and used World Wildlife Fund. An active participant until his death was “landscape and open-space planning” to carry out radical de- Peter Fenwick Holmes, former chairman (1985-93) of the centralization, such as breaking up energy supply into tiny Nazi-collaborating Royal Dutch Shell. units. Sir Robert Napier, CEO of WWF-UK from 1999 to 2007, The Livingstone-Gavron clique deployed this apparatus is now head of the U.K.’s Meteorological Office, which has to win the 2000 election, and then brought it directly into the been heavily involved in promoting lies about climate change. London government. He is also a member of the advisory board of the London-cen- They set up the London Climate Agency to enforce the tered Climate Group. cutback of CO2 and greenhouse gas emission. In 2003, they The current head of WWF-UK, David Nussbaum, is also set up the Congestion Charge Zone in central London; any- the CEO of Transparency Intelligence, a British intelligence- body driving a car in this zone had to pay a fee. linked advocacy group that is used to try to bring down pro- In 2005, working with Tony Blair, the Livingstone-Gav- development governments in the Third World. ron clique created the C40, an organization representing the

June 6, 2008 EIR National 59 mayors of 40 of the world’s largest cities, with an agenda to showing its overriding concern with green—the amount of impose a fascist Lombard League of Cities. Fabian leader money it could earn. CCC’s other foci of investment are re- Gavron, in particular, took the point in “handling” New York newable energy and clean energy technology, such as bio- City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and to bring the London pol- mass. icy thrust directly into New York. Over the past two years, There is an intimate overlap between the London-based Gavron travelled to New York half a dozen times to see Climate Change Capital and the Climate Group: Lord Ronald Bloomberg. Oxburgh and Michael Northrop, who are on the Advisory Board of Climate Change Capital, and James Cameron, who 23. The Climate Group is the vice chairman of Climate Change Capital, are all serv- The Climate Group, based in London, was launched in ing on the Advisory Board or the Board of Trustees of the Cli- April 2004 by Tony Blair and a group of CEOs and top execu- mate Group. tives from 20 companies, with the purpose of propagandizing the global warming hoax, and of getting especially large and 25. United Cities and Local Governments medium-size businesses to commit to that, including provid- (UCLG) ing funding. (It also operates in Australia and the United The Barcelona, Spain-based UCLG is a coordinating cen- States). ter for decentralization and the corrosive policy of devolving On March 14, 2008, Tony Blair and the Climate Group of power from sovereign nation-states to cities and towns, a announced “Breaking the Climate Deadlock,” an initiative prerequisite to impose a global Lombard League of Cities. that aims to get a framework for an international agreement on The UCLG was created in May 2001, from the merger of climate control reduction measures from the United States, the International Union of Local Authorities (IULA) and the China, India, Japan, and the European Union by 2009. United Towns Organization (UTO). The IULA was hatched in The Climate Group’s membership list includes corporate 1913 in The Netherlands, its headquarters soon moving to The members that can fund its operations: ABN AMRO, Allianz Hague; it was a semi-anarchist group that espoused “local Group, Barclays, Bloomberg, BP, Google, Goldman Sachs, control.” An early leader was Dirk Hudig. A history of the or- HSBC Holdings, Johnson & Johnson, JP Morgan Chase, Mu- ganization reports that “Hudig was a fierce supporter of Rich- nich Re, Starbucks, Standard Chartered, Swire, Swiss Re, and ard Coudenhove-Kalergi’s Pan-European ideas.” Couden- Virgin Airlines. Its public members include New York City hove-Kalergi was an early supporter and organizer for fascism, and the Greater London Authority. and members of his Pan-Europa movement included Hitler’s The CEO and co-founder of the Climate Group, Steve Economics Minister Hjalmar Schacht. His Pan-Europa orga- Howard, previously directed the Global Forest and Trade Net- nization called for breaking Europe into a “Europe of the re- work for the WWF International, which involved over 700 gions,” where the nations would be fragmented into hundreds companies. The environmentalist movement has placed sev- of contending mini-states and racial communities. Since no eral leading operatives on the Climate Group’s Advisory single small community would be strong enough to resist, Board, including Robert Napier, the former CEO of the WWF they would be ruled over by an international oligarchy. International; Michael Northrop, program head, Sustainable This is the thrust of the UCLG. The UCLG promotes itself Development Grant-Making, Rockefeller Brothers Fund; and as the “largest local government organization in the world,” Lord Oxburgh, former chairman, Royal Dutch Shell. “the global voice of cities, and the main local government partner of the United Nations.” 24. Climate Change Capital Over 1,000 cities in 95 countries are direct members of Based in London, Climate Change Capital (CCC) is a UCLG, as are 112 Local Government Associations (LGAs). merchant bank specializing in investments connected to Cli- Bernard Delanoë, the mayor of Paris, is the group’s world mate Change. president. In its mission statement, the company boasts, “Climate Change Capital has been at the forefront of the carbon market, 26. ILCEI-Local Governments for playing key roles in the design and implementation of the Sustainability Kyoto mechanisms since their inception.” Indeed, CCC Vice In 1989, the UN Environment Program (UNEP) played a Chairman James Cameron helped negotiate the Kyoto Proto- major role as midwife to the creation of the ICLEI-Local Gov- col, which was drafted at the Framework Convention on Cli- ernments for Sustainability (originally the International Coun- mate Change, held in Kyoto Japan in December 1997, and cil for Local Environmental Initiatives). Today, ICLEI stands which set down levels of specific reductions of CO2 and green- as the mother organization for the fascist Lombard League of house gas emissions that each country must meet. Cities. Armed with this technical knowledge, and with a war In 1992, the mission of ICLEI was made hard green-fas- chest of about $1 billion under management, the CCC has be- cist by the adoption of Declaration Local Agenda 21 at the UN come one of the world’s largest carbon emissions traders, Conference on Environment, the “Rio Earth Summit” held in

60 National EIR June 6, 2008 Rio Janeiro, Brazil, under the direction of Canada’s Maurice The C40’s first formal meeting was held in 2005 in Lon- Strong, and influenced by HRH Prince Charles of Great Brit- don; the second formal meeting was held in New York City in ain. Local Agenda 21 stipulated that unrestricted free trade, May 2007, at the invitation of Mayor Michael Bloomberg. and the “progressive reduction in the support and protection The next meeting is scheduled for Seoul, Korea in 2009. of agriculture” were necessary to sustainable development. It The central pretext guiding C40 is that national govern- declared that “the life-supporting capacities of our planet” are ments are too impotent, too incompetent, and too slow to tack- threatened by “the growth of world population and produc- le Global Warming. Therefore, it is necessary to bypass the tion,” and by “unsustainable [levels] of consumption,” so that national governments: Under the guise of an emergency to population, production, and consumption all had to be re- deal with this crisis, the cities must seize the initiative, and set duced. Finally, in Chapter 28, in a section specifically written up boards and structures, like synarchist banker Felix Ro- for ICLEI, it set the mission of reducing population, produc- hatyn’s dictatorial New York City “Big MAC” of 1975-83. tion, and consumption in the cities of the Third World, but in The model for this appears in Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC particular, in the advanced sector. 2030 report, “A Greater, Greener New York,” which calls for ICLEI developed a five-step “milestone process,” for each setting up a New York City Energy Planning Board, with dic- city to slash energy consumption by double-digits; pave over tatorial powers over energy flow; it would be empowered to old railroad yards and manufacturing plants, so that they could halt productive economic and infrastructural activity. never be revived; shift to bicycles, and experiment with “con- The C40’s current executive manager, Simon Reddy, gestion pricing” for cars, all in the name of fighting climate served as Director of Policy and Solutions, and worked for 15 change. London and New York City have become the models years, for Greenpeace. His major assignment: closing down for this plan, and the mayors and governments of 800 cities nuclear power plants. have been roped into it. At the December 2007 UN Framework Convention on 28. The Earth Institute Climate Change conference, attended by 10,000 in Bali, Indo- The Earth Institute was created in 1995, with a permanent nesia, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was given the home at Columbia University in New York City, to serve as a rare opportunity to address the general session as ICLEI’s rep- coordinating center to push propaganda for global warming, resentative, on ICLEI’s future plans. and offering the Malthusian doctrine of “sustainable develop- The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the German Marshall ment” as an alleged solution. Plan, the Tides Foundation, the Wolfensohn Family Founda- Given its New York City location, the Earth Institute was tion (of mega-banker and former World Bank President James also assigned the task of helping to write green policy for Wolfensohn), have all financed ICLEI. Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The Club of Rome has driven ICLEI policy. Conrad Otto- The sustainable development mantra is that mankind, Zimmermann, ICLEI’s General Secretary since 2002, was through industrialization and extensive agriculture, is con- mentored by Club of Rome founder Edward Pestel, and told a suming “finite resources” at an unsustainable rate. This must reporter on April 15, 2008 that the Club of Rome analysis “has be corrected by slashing consumption and production, and proven correct.” In March 2007, the co-author of the Club of living within the more primitive bounds that nature intended. Rome’s genocidal Limits to Growths report, Dennis Mead- Hand-in-hand with “sustainable development” is the genocid- ows, delivered the keynote address to ICLEI’s sustainable cit- al practice of “appropriate technology,” where, for example, ies conference in Seville, Spain. large dams to irrigate areas of agriculture, are replaced by individual farmers using labor-intensive foot pumps to irrigate 27. C40 their low-yield plots of land. The C40 was created in 2004 to steer the mayors of 40 of The Earth Institute’s director, Jeffrey Sachs, is notorious the world’s largest cities, and the cities themselves, into an for enforcing “shock therapy” on Russia, Poland, and several austerity-driven, fascist Lombard League of Cities. Twenty- Eastern European countries during the 1990s, after the fall of one of the C40’s cities, each of which must have at least 3 mil- communism, which thereby produced precipitous drops in in- lion in population, are in the developing world. London, New dustrial production, mass unemployment, and the destruction York, and Paris are in the forefront. of social services, such as health care. Sachs, in his capacity as London was the exclusive center of the founding of the the current director of the United Nations Millennium Project, organization. According to the manager of the C40, then-Lon- is specifically charged with enforcing sustainable develop- don Mayor Ken Livingstone, and Deputy Mayor Nicky Gav- ment throughout the world, which will hit the Third World ron, established the group. The British Fabian Society and particularly hard. Greenpeace had a major role in the C40’s creation, as did Among the 30 groups that are under the Earth Institute, then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in his role of chair- are: the New York branch of NASA’s Goddard Space Center, man of the G8 nations’ economic summit of 2005, in Glenea- whose director, James Hansen, has poured out lies alleging gles, Scotland. that NASA has covered up the truth about global warming;

June 6, 2008 EIR National 61 the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation; 30. Felix Rohatyn and the Center for Climate Systems Research. Rohatyn is the Anglo-Dutch financier controller of New The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has poured a large stream York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, masterminding the process of money into the Earth Institute. The Institute counts among for a worldwide fascist Dark Ages. its Advisory Board members Kenneth Arrow, a pioneer in Felix Rohatyn is a protégé of André Meyer, who, during “systems analysis”; and leading Anglo-Dutch fascist agent, the 1930s and 1940s, was a kingpin of an synarchist invest- financier George Soros. ment bank known as Lazard Frères, in Paris. Lazard was an In 2006, the Earth Institute signed a contract with the City integral part of the Nazi takeover of continental Europe, and of New York, to become the city’s chief scientific advisor; for Meyer personally trained Rohatyn, about whom, he said, “Fe- the past two years, it has been a lead writer of the PlaNYC lix is like a son to me.” 2030, Mayor Bloomberg’s blueprint for a Lombard League of Rohatyn and his close collaborator George Shultz orga- Cities. nized the bloody coup of Chilean Gen. Augusto Pinochet. On Sept. 11, 1973, Pinochet led a military coup that ousted the 29. Partnership for New York City elected government of President Salvador Allende. The back- This is a group of top trans-Atlantic bankers, posing as a ground to this is that, in 1971, Rohatyn, who was also a direc- “business association” that is steering green fascist policy into tor of ITT, orchestrated ITT’s takeover of Hartford Insur- Mayor Bloomberg’s administration, and attempting to resur- ance, along with ITT chairman Harold Geneen. ITT, which rect the “Big MAC” dictatorship of 1975-83. has a dark chapter in its history of association with the Nazis, The New York Chamber of Commerce and Industry, since had an extensive presence in Chile. The ITT structure, col- colonial times, had represented the city’s business interests, laborating with Shultz-Henry Kissinger networks, directed but in 1979, David Rockefeller created the New York City the Pinochet coup, unleashing several decades of terror, Partnership, as a Chamber affiliate, to be an instrument for which would spread to other parts of South and Central Rockefeller’s Wall Street-London financier axis to steer local America, through regional death squads under “Operation government policy and administration. Its purpose, as the Condor.” group expresses it, is to “work more directly with government In 1975, Rohatyn brought the Chilean example into the and other civic groups to address broader social and econom- United States. A financial crisis was precipitated in New York ic problems in a ‘hands on’ way.” City’s already difficult financial situation, and Rohatyn seized In 2002, just after billionaire Michael Bloomberg was the opportunity to ram through the Municipal Assistance Cor- elected mayor, the old Chamber of Commerce disappeared poration, which came to be known as Big MAC, usurping the into Rockefeller’s group, now renamed Partnership for New power of the elected mayor and City Council. With Rohatyn York City. announcing that New Yorkers would suffer “a great deal of The Partnership describes itself as “a select group of two pain,” the Big MAC dictatorship closed scores of fire stations, hundred CEOs (Partners) from New York City’s top corpo- hospitals, and other vital services, transferring wealth from rate, investment, and entrepreneurial firms.” the hides of the population to the banks. Certain of the group’s leaders show up as promoters of the On April 6, 2000, then-U.S. Ambassador to France Felix corporatist, radical-austerity agenda which now features Rohatyn convened a conference in Lyon, called the First Bloomberg himself as the intended U.S. President, through Transatlantic Summit of Mayors, to pull together a League of one means or another. Cities. For the last decade, Rohatyn has been organizing the Among the most significant Partnership activists: privatization of infrastructure, a program called public private Kathryn S. Wylde, president & CEO, publicly debates partnerships (PPPs), by which publicly built infrastructure, the opponents of the Mayor’s Congestion Pricing Initiative. such as roads and bridges, are turned over to financial syndi- She is a close political partner in “school reform” with Eliza- cates to loot. Rohatyn is the controller of House Speaker Nan- beth Rohatyn, wife of Felix Rohatyn. cy Pelosi and the bankers’ wing of the Democratic Party. Founding (emeritus) Chairman David Rockefeller. As Working behind the scenes, Rohatyn has been the control- longtime chairman of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, he has ler of Michael Bloomberg. Bloomberg met with Rohatyn in a advanced many of New York City’s current feudalist-theme private lunch, prior to his taking office as mayor, after the governance projects. 2001 election. Most likely, the Big MAC prototype was dis- Co-chairman Lloyd C. Blankfein, currently chairman/ cussed. On Nov. 1, 2007, the neoconservative Manhattan In- CEO, Goldman Sachs & Co. Blankfein replaced former Gold- stitute hosted a conference, “Thinking Big for New York man Sachs chairman Henry Paulson, who is now U.S. Trea- City,” which featured Rohatyn and Bloomberg. Rohatyn once sury Secretary and a political ally. again recounted the “success” of Big MAC. Rupert Murdoch, chairman & CEO, News Corporation, Rohatyn protégés Steven Rattner and Stephen Berger, in the rightist British Empire media baron who promotes the circles around Bloomberg, are in a position to guide the pro- scheme to make Bloomberg the U.S. President. cess that plunges New York into medievalism.

62 National EIR June 6, 2008 31. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg LP’s largest operations outside of New York, are in London; Michael Bloomberg, who was elected mayor of New York he waxes enthusiastic about the British-U.S. “special rela- City in 2001, and re-elected in 2005, is the stalking horse for tionship.” imposing the green fascist agenda upon the United States. It was then-Deputy Mayor of London Nicky Gavron, Bloomberg was a bond salesman, and later general partner for longtime member and booster of the British Fabian Society, Salomon Brothers investment bank. In 1981, higher financial who was given the assignment of “Bloomberg handler.” forces arranged for Bloomberg to set up what later would be- She travelled to New York six times over the last few years come Bloomberg LP, selling financial software services, to meet with Bloomberg, and met with him in other loca- news, and data. Based on Bloomberg LP’s net worth, Bloom- tions as well. In 2003, London initiated “congestion pric- berg has a personal fortune of at least $13-17 billion (he now ing,” which Gavron brought to Bloomberg. Gavron also claims $40 billion). schooled Bloomberg, based on her 15 years at the London Using this personal fortune, Bloomberg bought the New Planning Advisory Committee and then as London deputy York mayoral election, spending $200 million of his own mayor, of how to “green” a city; slash energy consumption, money. etc. This formed the core—along with plans from the Earth Working with leading London circles, Bloomberg assem- Institute and the Partnership for New York City—for bled the logistical machinery to run as an independent candi- Bloomberg’s team to construct PlaNYC 2030, released in date for U.S. President; he may run as a Vice Presidential can- late 2007. didate on either the Democratic or Republican Party ticket, Gavron and then-London Mayor Ken Livingstone brought thereby placing himself in a position to usurp the Presidency, Bloomberg into C40, a group that Livingstone and Gavron should that office become vacant. had formed in 2004-05; Bloomberg hosted the second formal The British targetted Bloomberg to bring the Lombard meeting of C40 in New York City in May 2007. Bloomberg League of Cities program into the United States. Tory Party also became active with the ICLEI-Sustainable Development chairman David Cameron assigned Bloomberg to deliver the organization. keynote address to the 2007 national Conservative Party con- Later this year, Bloomberg will host another meeting of vention in the U.K. Bloomberg told the convention, “Forgive top mayors from around the world in New York, to sell them us for 1776, and we’ll forgive you for 1812.” Bloomberg on advancing the financiers’ Lombard League of Cities plan.

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